I don’t know if you’ve paid attention, but installing apps on a PC can be a real pain. While the Microsoft Store is the ...

After years of unofficial copies of Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC floating around on the internet, the software giant has released the code under an open-source license. 6502 BASIC was one of Microsoft’s ...

We keep seeing some mighty strange talk from Microsoft these days. Not only is Microsoft a platform company now for Microsoft-based applications through the Azure platform, but Microsoft is embarking ...

InfoWorld: Please describe Microsoft’s Shared Source program and its relation to open source and give some examples of code made available through it. Matusow: We ...

In the realm of IT security, the practice known as red teaming -- where a company's security personnel play the attacker to test system defenses -- has always been a challenging and resource-intensive ...

Microsoft has released two open source tools on CodePlex that let developers more easily create apps for Outlook PST files. Those tools are not only open source, they’ve been released under the Apache ...

Home Computer Archeology: Few early Microsoft products left as lasting a mark as 6502 BASIC. The interpreter introduced millions of people to computers and programming, shaping the next generation of ...

There’s been plenty of speculation this week about the consequences of the announced retirement of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. But I’ve seen little that considers the consequences of the management ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

Digital Journal — “You can’t go forcing something if it’s just not right.” Those lyrics from Green Day’s “When I Come Around” could have worked as background music to Microsoft’s announcement today ...

Microsoft Corp. is providing the funding for a new foundation aimed at bringing open-source and proprietary software companies together to participate side by side in open-source projects. According ...

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600. Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit ...